They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson
They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson
This is one of my favorite short stories. I'm sure most of you have read it. It's pretty popular. Glad I found this instance. I'll be posting a few things that I haven't seen here. Let me know if I overdo it lol.
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I had heard of this story but never read it. This was AMAZING.
'A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat's dream.' I love this sentence so much.
I love this style of outsider perspective that deals with human absurdity and the infinite possibilities of the universe. Especially when dealt with sharp comedy instead of self importance. This remimded me of a Hictchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. It also reminded me of hitchhiker's guide the first time I read it. There's a pretty good audio version on YouTube somewhere that some actors did, but I prefer to read it. If you like that you might also like the other one I posted right after that one called 17776. It's more of an interactive thing, I wouldn't say interactive but more like animated, but it's pretty long and may not fit here. And if you need me to remove it I will gladly do so. But it's right up there with some of my favorite books of all time.
Jon Bois’ longform works really stretch what narrative can be on the internet. It’s wild.
It's definitely one of the more unique things I've found on the internet. And I'm not even a fan of football even a little bit. But it has relatively little to do with the story and the scheme of things.
I feel like I remember 17776 but I'll have to check. Thanks for posting here tho! It's nice to see quality content coming in.
Just checked out the video and I prefered the read too
Yeah, I've already posted three for today. I have literally hundreds of short stories saved so I'll post a few here and there but I'm not going to overdo it and blow my wad in one day. This is going to be a great community. I live to read and I love short stories when I have a few minutes. Short stories are particularly interesting, such as short films, because you're forced to get to the point relatively quickly. And I have always found that when you have a limited amount of time to get your story across, you tend to do it far more creatively than if you went full-scale.
That's good posting etiquette.
I agree I've recently become a short stories + short movies fan myself. How much can you strip from a narrative while still portraying your ideas faithfully and clearly.
Agreed.
And yeah, I agree with the posting etiquette thing, since this is a new community, I figured I'd just start with a few of the more popular stories from my list to help get more clicks coming into this community. That way we'll get more postings. I'm really excited for this. I love Lemmy but I haven't found some of the communities I'm used to like this one. So kudos for making this happen.